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Scottish boxer Mike Towell has died in hospital despite “fighting to the end” after he was seriously injured in a bout. The 25-year-old suffered a fifth-round loss to Dale Evans on Thursday night, in a fight at the Radisson Blu hotel in Glasgow and was ...and more »

Mike Towell death prompts renewed calls for boxing ban - The Guardian

Doctors, health experts and politicians have repeated demands that boxing should be banned following the death of Scottish fighter Mike Towell. The 25-year-old boxer was carried from the ring on a stretcher after a fifth-round loss to Dale Evans in a ...and more »

Death in the ring: After tragic death of 'Iron' Mike Towell's, new calls for boxing to be banned - Herald Scotland

LEADING brain injury experts have renewed calls for boxing to be banned as it emerged that Scottish boxer Mike Towell – who died late on Friday following a fight in Glasgow – had been forced to stop sparring in a training bout because of a migraine ...and more »

Boxer Towell dies after Glasgow bout - BBC News

Scottish boxer Mike Towell has died in hospital after being seriously injured in a bout on Thursday. The 25-year-old, from Dundee, was rushed to hospital after a fifth-round loss to Welsh fighter Dale Evans in a St Andrew's Sporting Club fight at ...and more »

World Medical Association: Boxing is a 'very bad idea' - ITV News

Medical experts have called for boxing to be banned on the grounds that it is a 'dangerous sport'. Credit: PA Wire. Boxing is a "very bad idea" from a medical standpoint, the World Medical Association has said. Following the death of 25-year-old boxer ...and more »

Boxers' safety in spotlight again after death of Mike Towell - Sky News

A doctor claims the sport "ruins" boxers' lives, but one ex-champ tells Sky a ban would make things even more dangerous. 04:42, UK, Sunday 02 October 2016. Towell with his management team in 2015. Image: Towell with his management team in 2015. The ...and more »

Calls to ban 'senseless' boxing after Scottish boxer dies - iNews

boixng Mike Towell , pictured on the left, in an earlier boxing fight in 2015. (Picture: Mark Runnacles/Getty Images). Jem Collins 1 year Saturday October 1st 2016. Health organisations are calling for a ban on the “senseless sport” of boxing, after ...and more »

Boxer Mike Towell 'fought right to the end' says devastated girlfriend following his death aged 25 - Mirror.co.uk

The 25-year-old had to be stretchered from the ring after a fifth-round loss to Dale Evans in a St Andrews Sporting Club fight in Glasgow on Thursday night. The young father, from Dundee, was rushed to Queen Elizabeth University Hospital where he was ...and more »